"Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:D8r6c.36932$Cb.563433@attbi_s51...
I am not by any means trying to justify terrorism, I am only trying
explain what I percieve is a very narrow and self-centerd view of what
is happening. and that this view is causing more harm than good.

Okay, Alex, please explain how, in your view, the U.S. has created the
Islamic terrorists. What have we done, as a nation, to foment terror?

I didn't say the US has created the terrorists; they are responsible
for their own actions. But I believe the US has given them a motive.
I'll repeat my earlier attempt to explain myself:

The US has been interfering with governments all over the world for
many decades. Some very exceptional and highly publized interventions
end up well (WW2). But most of them lead directly or indirectly to
poverty, famine and general misery (Lat.America). In most of these
places the people just sigh and go on in their daily struggle to
survive... Some have mixed feelings because they have the rare
privilege of having access to the US-produced goods.

Maybe the US interventions in the Middle East have been much more
unbearable, or maybe the people there aren't so sheepish and they
fight back.